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n. - Rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers.

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  • The blue mistflower can be aggressive, but I love the color it brings in the fall, then tear much of it out, but not all.
  • The mistflower is more blue than purple, but it sort of works when Purple Heart, Lion's Tail and Lamb's Ears are in the mix.
  • (In the photo above, Indigo Spires is mingling with spinach that is going to seed) (Blue mistflower, or Eupatorium (Conoclinium) beginning to bloom.)
  • The butterflies, busy chowing down, could be seen Monday from a distance, flittering in and out of the Gregg's mistflower planted in the butterfly garden at Temple College.
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